Episode 05 – Moist In the 1990s, Canadian alternative rock wasn’t just a genre—it was a shared cultural experience. For Jeff Pearce, bassist of Moist, that era is best defined by the chaotic, beautiful energy of the MuchMusic Video Awards. Unlike the polished veneer of MTV, MuchMusic felt accessible and DIY. Whether it was the
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Episode 03 – Not By Choice For Liam Killeen of Not By Choice, the 2000s Canadian music landscape was defined by one powerful force: the MuchMusic monoculture. In an age before endless streaming and personalized algorithms, MuchMusic acted as the singular, national curator of cool. Liam explains that the network “dictated” the culture, exposing an
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Episode 03 – The Tea Party In this episode, Jeff Burrows looks back on the 90s as a wild, defining decade — a blur of massive festivals, MuchMusic-fueled momentum, and moments that didn’t feel surreal until years later. From the chaos and camaraderie of Edgefest to touring with Foo Fighters and Green Day (“walking through
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Episode 02 – Econoline Crush In this episode, I sit down with Trevor Hurst, the unmistakable voice of Econoline Crush, to revisit the electric landscape of late-’90s and early-2000s Canadian rock. Trevor reflects on a moment when MuchMusic helped build a true star system at home, giving Canadian bands space to break through in a
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-28 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Jungle – Back On 74 || Volcano 2.) Begonia – Hotter Than The Sun || Fantasy Life 3.) Sudan Archives – DEAD || The BPM 4.) Shad – Slanted || Start Anew 5.) Scott Hardware – Costume Off || Overpass 6.) The Afghan Whigs
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-27 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Alexisonfire – Fully Completely || Copies of Old Masters Vol. 1 2.) Danko Jones – Everyday is Saturday Night || Leo Rising 3.) Hollerado – Keep On Moving || Start A Band 4.) LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean || This Is Happening 5.)
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-25 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Beach House – Myth || Bloom 2.) SPELLING, Weyes Blood – Destiny Arrives || single 3.) Purity Ring – place of my own || Purity Ring 4.) Hannah Jadagu – Normal Today || Describe 5.) Austra – Siren Song || Chin Up Buttercup 6.)
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-24 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Metric – Help I’m Alive || Fantasies 2.) Hatchie – Sage || Liquorice 3.) Hayley Williams – Showbiz || Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party 4.) Hawksley Workman – Striptease || (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves 5.) Econoline Crush – New Gold
Episode 01 – Hawksley Workman In this episode, I sit down with the inimitable artist, Hawksley Workman, to explore his genre-defying career, the legendary days of MuchMusic, and what it was like creating his early, influential records. He opens up about the invigorating energy of the late ’90s and early 2000s Canadian music scene, a
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MAH || 2025-09-24 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Lammping, Bloodshot Bill – Won’t Back Down || Never Never 2.) Boo Boos – C’mon Baby || Young Love 3.) Nate and the Busy Boys – Busy Boy Needs You || Busy Doing Nothing 4.) Frog – BITTEN BY MY LOVE VAR. XI || THE COUNT
MAH || 2025-09-23 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater || I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 2.) Father John Misty – Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings || Fear Fun 3.) Wombo – Danger in Fives || Danger in Fives 4.) TOPS – ICU2 || Bury The Key 5.)
MAH || 2025-09-22 Artists- Track || Album 1.) Jane’s Party – Over You || single 2.) Tame Impala – Lost In Yesterday || The Slow Rush 3.) Royel Otis – come on home || hickey 4.) Yumi Zuma – Drag || single 5.) Gorillaz, Sparks – The Happy Dictator || single 6.) Charlotte Cardin –
MAH || 2025-09-17 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Matt May & El Torpedo – On The Hood || Matt May & El Torpedo 2.) Radiator – One More Year || 23 PARK STREET LONDON UK 3.) The Age of Electric – I Don’t Mind || Make a Pest a Pet 4.) Motherhood – Way
MAH || 2025-09-16 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Bibi Club – Le Feu || Feu de garde 2.) Lou-Adriane Cassidy – Dis-moi dis-moi dis-moi || Journal d’un Loup-Garou 3.) Marie Davidson – Fun Times || City Of Clowns 4.) Mustafa – Name of God || Dunya 5.) Nemahsis – coloured concrete || Verbathim 6)
MAH || 2025-09-15 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Fleet Foxes – Mykonos || Sun Giant 2.) Father John Misty – Date Night || God’s Favorite Customer 3.) Blood Orange – Countryside || Essex Honey 4.) Chillteens – Sweet Bay || Sweet Songs 5.) Elliott Skinner – RECALLING || single 6.) Alabama Shakes – Gimmie
Homemade Jams || 2025-09-12 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Nate and the Busy Boys – Twist Then Shake || Busy Doing Nothing 2.) Keith Hallett – CRY TILL THE END || MEZMERIZE ME 3.) Honey Gut – Buried Alive || Hunter-Gatherer 4.) Penny & the Pits – Eutychus || Liquid Compactor 5.) The Hello
MAH || 2025-09-12 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Will Paquin – We Really Done It This Time || single 2.) Minus World – Fvck This City || single 3.) Hayley Williams – Parachute || Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party 4.) The Dears – Tears Of A Nation || single 5.) TOPS – Annihilation
2FER || 2025-09-11 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Oranje – Body || single 2.) Oranje – Styrofoam || single 3.) Men I Trust – Come Back Down || Equus Caballus 4.) Men I Trust – Another Stone || Equus Caballus 5.) Grand Theft Bus – Something Medicinal || Say It With Me 6.) Grand
Spotlight 2025-09-10 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Penny & The Pits – Montenegro On Ice || Liquid Compactor 2.) Penny & The Pits – Thick Black Gloves || Liquid Compactor 3.) Penny & The Pits – Pool Party || Liquid Compactor 4.) Penny & The Pits – Self Defence || Liquid Compactor 5.) Penny
MAH || 2025-09-11 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Dillon Ryan & The Dream Romantic – Addressed To You || In Polaroid 2.) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Murder Of Crows || single 3.) Pictureplane – Weeping Sky || single 4.) Grumpy – Rice || single 5.) Emily Yacina – The Clearing || single 6.) Father
MAH || 2025-09-10 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Muncho – King Midas of Bad Vibes || Is This Something? 2.) Mac DeMarco – Rock And Roll || Guitar 3.) Papal Visit – How Can You Change Your Ways? || single 4.) Keith Hallett – REOCCURRING DREAM || MEZMERIZE ME 5.) OSEES – INFECTED CHROME
MAH || 2025-09-09 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Flood Plain – Boom Town || BOOM TOWN 2.) Summer Bruises – Gut Rot || single 3.) Joel Plaskett Emergency – Written All Over Me || Truthfully Truthfully 4.) Foxwarren – Listen2me || 2 5.) The Burning Hell – You’ll Know It When It’s Over ||
MAH || 2025-09-08 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Serge Paul – Paralyzed || Rumination 2.) Umläb – Antennes || single 3.) JayWood – ASSUMPTIONS || LEO NEGRO 4.) Good Dear Good – Fool Me || single 5.) Late Again – Chick’n Tenders || Clearly It’s All Staged 6.) Joel Plaskett Emergency – Fashionable People
2Fer || 2025-09-05 Artist – Track || Album 1.) WITCH – Totally Devoted || SOGOLO 2.) WITCH – Kamusale || SOGOLO 3.) Penny & the Pits – Montenegro On Ice || Liquid Compactor 4.) Penny & the Pits – Pool Party || Liquid Compactor 5.) Wet Leg – CPR || moisturizer 6.) Wet Leg –
Mornings Are Hard Artist – Track || Album 1.) Born Ruffians – To Be Seen || Beauty’s Pride 2.) Absolute Losers – At The Same Time || In The Crowd 3.) Limblifter – Ariel vs. Lotus || Bellacava 4.) Radiator – You Need To Know || 23 Park Street London UK 5.) Amber Hotel –